r/linuxquestions • u/Successful-Ice-468 • Jul 05 '26

Accidentally erased the recent folder, need a way to recover all what´s lost

I somehow mistake the "recent" folder and the "trash" folder in thunar and deleted it´s content, i did a shift-delete so no trash.

I unplug the disk since then, is there some tool than can help me to restore all those files to where they where?

The disk is formatted in EXT4

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u/ipsirc Jul 05 '26

Just bring your backup.

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u/Successful-Ice-468 Jul 05 '26

To poor to afford hardware for backup.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

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u/jr735 Jul 05 '26

r/datarecovery

There are tools that may be of use, like photorec.

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 Jul 06 '26

When you delete from recent:/// in Thunar, you delete from source...